First Baptist Podcast

What if the biggest threat to your mission isn’t coming from the outside, but from the inside? In Nehemiah 5, the wall around Jerusalem is going up, the enemies have been silenced, and then the work grinds to a halt. Hungry families are mortgaging their h

Nehemiah’s wall is going up, and so is the opposition. In this message from our series through the book of Nehemiah, we look at Nehemiah 4 and how mockery, threats, and discouragement threaten to derail the work God called His people to do. We see how Neh

Nobody builds a sandbag wall alone. In this message from our Nehemiah series, we look at Nehemiah 3, a chapter that names the real people who rebuilt Jerusalem’s wall, gate by gate, side by side. Some built near their own homes. Some refused to put their

What do you do when the ruins around you become normal? Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem to find a wall that had sat broken for 140 years. Everyone had gotten used to it. In this message from Nehemiah 2:11-20, we look at how one leader quietly prepared, told

Nehemiah had to ask his boss, the most powerful king in the world, for something the king had already said no to 16 years earlier. After four months of praying and planning in silence, the door finally opened, and Nehemiah had to decide whether to walk th